Louise+Huse

On June 12, 1922, Louise Huse, 30-year-old wife of Carl Huse, died at Chicago's Mid West Hospital from a criminal abortion performed there that day. On June 16, [|midwife] Agnes Tholl was arrested on the recommendation of the coroner.

Louise, a punch-press operator, was the daughter of John and Augusta (Sniger) Lempke, who had immigrated to Chicago before their daughter's birth.

Keep in mind that things that things we take for granted, like antibiotics and blood banks, were still in the future. For more about abortion in this era, see [|Abortion in the 1920s]. For more on pre-legalization abortion, see[|The Bad Old Days of Abortion] Source:


 * [|Homicide in Chicago Interactive]

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